‘The American Chestnut’: An Interview with Author Donald Edward Davis
Tale of Resolve: Remembering Cherokee Sand Town at St. John’s, Cartoogechaye
Going Against History?: Illicit love and intermarriage (Cherokee and European Unions)
National Register of Historic Places - Macon County
The Great Locomotive Chase -- link to film and local press coverage
Cowee-West’s Mill Historic District Self-Guided Driving Tour
HISTORIC ARCHITECTURAL RESOURCES SURVEY REPORT REPLACE BRIDGE NO. 16 ON SR 1309 (Slagle Farm)
Memoirs of the Civil War by William Williams Stringfield
The Beck Brothers of the Thomas Legion in the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign
Thomas' Legion : The 69th North Carolina Regiment
Transcript of Thomas Griffiths Journal
Richard Thornton's work on the history of the Nikwasi Mound
1860 Macon County Census, starts on page 451
Robert Strange's Eoneguski, or, The Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars
“Their Look is Onward”: The Politics of Cherokee Removal in North Carolina
Introduction to the Keowee Trail
My Scots-Irish Ancestor Murdered Indigenous People
Iron Forge and Gillespie Rifles
Southern Appalachian Digital Collections
Rural Free Delivery Map Macon County (1910-1919)
Natural Atlas - Little Tennessee
Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched: A History Of Folk Horror
1884 Royce Map of Former Cherokee Land in the Middle United States
The Cherokee History of Trail of Tears -- Fantastic resource by Brent Riggs and Lance Greene
Robert Armstrong Survey of Cherokee Lands
John Preston Arthur's History of Western North Carolina
A Map of South Carolina : Shewing the Settlements of the English, French, & Indian Nations from CharlesTown to the River Mississippi. Nairne 1711 Map
Invasion of America map -- interactive map of Native American dispossession
The Peachtree Valley and Valley Town mission : a Baptist recategorization of a Cherokee landscape
The War on Poverty in NC
Macon County Historic Post Offices
Macon County Historical Museum
North Carolina History & Culture
A Directory of Online Primary-Source Databases & Historical Sites
Free, publicly accessible collections for researching the history and culture of North Carolina — with an emphasis on the western mountains. Each entry notes what the collection holds; the strongest starting points appear first in each section.
Statewide Cornerstones
The NC Digital Heritage Center at UNC-Chapel Hill, aggregating digitized materials from 340-plus libraries, museums, and archives — with items now from all 100 counties. Newspapers, yearbooks, city directories, photographs, and objects. Start here for county- and community-level material.
The joint State Archives / State Library platform: roughly 175,000 full-text-searchable photographs, state government publications, and manuscripts. Materials appear as originally recorded, so expect period language and imagery.
The State Library's online encyclopedia (NCpedia) and its companion digital history textbook, ANCHOR — eleven chronological parts from the first peoples to the present, pairing readings with primary sources.
UNC's digital library of southern history and culture. Key subsites: The Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, North American Slave Narratives, Oral Histories of the American South, and First-Person Narratives. Treat the CSR as a digitized scholarly edition, not the manuscript record.
Western North Carolina, Appalachia & Cherokee
WCU Hunter Library Special Collections' regional platform — letters, diaries, business and legal records, maps, and photographs of western NC and southern Appalachia.
Notable subsites: Craft Revival (the region's handcraft-revival movement) · Cherokee Traditions: From the Hands of Our Elders (basketry, pottery, woodworking, and native-language recordings, with Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual and the Museum of the Cherokee People) · Travel Western North Carolina.
The State Archives' western branch in Asheville (by appointment), holding private collections and microfilmed county records for the mountains. Core holdings include the Black Mountain College papers, the Blue Ridge Parkway Photograph Collection, and the Appalachian National Park Association papers.
Formerly the Museum of the Cherokee Indian; a cultural museum, educational center, and archive founded in 1948 on the Qualla Boundary, foregrounding Cherokee-authored interpretation.
A major manuscript, print, and photographic collection for the Appalachian region at Appalachian State University, strongest for the northern NC mountains. Complements Hunter Library's western holdings.
Historic Newspapers
The Library of Congress's national digitized-newspaper database; NC titles were contributed through the state's National Digital Newspaper Program participation. Best for pre-1963 runs.
The deepest NC-specific newspaper corpus, especially valuable for small-town and community papers not found elsewhere.
Early titles from Edenton, Fayetteville, Hillsborough, New Bern, Salisbury, and Wilmington, dating 1752 through the 1890s and keyword-searchable.
Maps & Historic Places
A joint collection from the State Archives, the Outer Banks History Center, and UNC's North Carolina Collection — more than 3,000 maps from the late 1500s to 2000, some overlaid on modern Google Maps.
The SHPO's GIS tool mapping roughly 100,000 surveyed buildings, districts, and features, linking to National Register nomination PDFs (nearly 3,000 listings). Archaeological site data are deliberately excluded. Map service at gis.ncdcr.gov/hpoweb.
A searchable database of the 1,600-plus roadside markers. A useful finding aid — but the marker essays are secondary interpretation, so trace and cite the underlying sources.
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